Originally Posted by
AreOut
bad analogy, person falls into a waterway, is visibly confused by thinking a yellow rag is a life vest(which you very much doubt it is) and says no thank you I have a life vest, whereafter you say "oh OK then" instead of throwing another ring which can certainly do no harm even if the person was right
"Visibly confused" - so now not only controllers in a tower supposed to be able to perform complex performance calculations of an aircraft from their seats in the tower - possibly by clairvoyantly knowing how much fuel the aircraft has onboard plus guesstimating how heavy it is by seeing how compressed the struts of the undercarriage are whilst noting the position of the flaps and positing how far the pilots will set the throttles, is that your next gem??? - but they are now supposed to be able to have the vision of superman by seeing that not one but TWO pilots, both with valid ATPL licences - are.... how did you put it????
Ah, yes, that's right.....
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......visibly confused......
Talk about delusional..... *shakes head*